Embers

Ember frowned slightly, thinking about the meaning of his words.

Fu Yan looked at him intently.

"Remember?"

"insanity?"

"No, it's a curse."

Fu Yan let out a sigh of relief lazily: "I was cursed before I was born."

Ember waited for his next words.

Fu Yan simply ordered a chair to sit down and poured himself a cup of tea.Ember also sat down with him.

This matter has to start from 32 years ago.

The regime of the first emperor Shao Yu was not very stable at that time, and the power of the prime minister in the court was far greater than that of the imperial power.And Fu Yan's mother and concubine was Fu Xilan, the daughter of the Prime Minister at that time.

After the first emperor had been conferred before this, in order to consolidate his position in the court and further deprive the emperor of his power, the prime minister almost forced the emperor to marry Fu Xilan.

Naturally, the first emperor hated such a marriage, but he was afraid of the prime minister's power, so he pretended to love Fu Xilan.

For a while, Fu Xilan became the most favored concubine in the palace, even she herself could not feel the emperor's deceit, thinking that the two of them were in love with each other.

And at this moment, Fu Xilan became pregnant.

The first emperor seemed to have lost his mind, and actually gave an order that as long as she, Fu Xilan, gave birth to a boy, he would be made the crown prince and inherit the throne in the future.

This news pleased the prime minister and drove the queen crazy.

If nothing else happened, it was supposed to be her son Shao Huanyu who became the crown prince.After all, Shao Huanyu was the emperor's first son.

The ministers tried to persuade the late emperor to think twice, but the late emperor ignored it, as if he was determined to give Fu Xilan the supreme favor of the emperor.

He can do this for a son, and the queen can't help but start to panic. Will this man find a reason to abolish himself as the queen sooner or later?

So she found someone to help her with an idea, and that person hired a very powerful magician for her, and made a suggestion in the court, saying that it was to pray for the country and protect the country and peace for a long time.

The first emperor was naturally very happy, and after finding a good day, he invited the conjurer into the palace and asked him to do it.

At the queen's invitation, Fu Xilan also went to the scene.

The conjurer was obviously praying for the country, but he quietly cast a curse on Xilan.

After the practice was completed, the conjurer was silenced on the way out where no one knew, and the person who made the suggestion was also assassinated and died at home three days later.

The first emperor did not strictly investigate this matter.

Ten months later, Fu Xilan really gave birth to a son.

The child was born on the day of the lunar eclipse, the blood moon was hanging in the dark night sky, and there was a strong wind between the heaven and the earth, giving an ominous state.

And the most frightening thing is his eyes, which were opened since birth, and they are blood red.

He didn't cry or make trouble, just looked at everyone present so coldly, exuding an indescribable evil spirit all over his body.

The midwife died suddenly on the spot for some unknown reason, and the late emperor was shocked when he heard the news.

The imperial doctor came to see and concluded that the child had been cursed.

But in the Central Plains, there are very few conjurers, and doctors can't solve this kind of curse at all.

Obviously, it is impossible for such a cursed child to inherit the throne.

As long as the first emperor made up his mind to investigate, he would definitely find the empress, but after searching for a while, he only found the dead magician.

The prime minister had doubts about this matter, but Fu Xilan, who was immersed in love, didn't even smell the conspiracy.

After giving birth to a cursed child, even though Fu Xilan was a victim, she was respected and kept at a distance. People in the palace would make a detour when they saw her, and even the late emperor gradually began to neglect her.

Everything seems to be in order.

Fu Xilan, who lived in the cold palace, was tortured by despair and fear day after day. Finally, one day, a court lady bribed by the empress poisoned her food, and a beautiful young woman died instantly. .

"Do you know why I hate him?" Fu Yan played with the teacup and said with a faint smile, "Because I found out later that it was all planned by him. He knew that the queen was jealous, and that she would find a way to deal with it. The mother and concubine are disadvantaged, so they deliberately released the words to benefit me as the crown prince."

He can still remember that day, when he came back from the outside, he saw Concubine Mu lying on the ground with a blue face, with a trace of black and red blood on the corner of her mouth.

She tried her best to open her eyes, touched his face with her cold hands, and said with difficulty: "Go...to find...your father..."

She didn't know until she died that the one who really wanted her to die was the one she was thinking of.

He did not go to the first emperor.

They just stayed in the cold palace for seven whole days, during which no one came to bring them food.

Watching my mother concubine lose her breath a little bit, become a little stiff, lose temperature a little bit, rot a little bit, and watch maggots start to climb up her body.

Seven days later, someone inadvertently broke into this place and found Fu Xilan's body and Fu Yan who had passed out.

It's clichéd, yet extremely realistic.This is the harem, a mass grave for power struggles.

Not long after Fu Xilan's death, the late emperor saw that the time was ripe, and something happened at this time, so he took the opportunity to find a reason to completely eradicate the Fu family.

Ember paused, and said, "Then what happened to your eyes?"

Fu Yan exhaled lightly, and said, "That should be regarded as a very unexpected accident."

During the days when Fu Xilan was thrown into the cold palace, he accidentally met the queen's son, the crown prince Shao Huanyu.

Shao Huanyu liked him very much, and the two played well, but in the harem, danger always lurks in the dark.

That day, it was Shao Huanyu who took him to play hide-and-seek in the Blue and White Palace.

It was also because of going there that he lost his eyes.

There, the first emperor was having sex with a concubine who lived in the Qinghua Palace.

That year, Fu Yan was only eight years old.

He watched his father and emperor doting on other women, but his mother and concubine died miserably in the cold palace. For seven days, no one collected the body.

At that moment, the hostility broke out uncontrollably.

He rushed over like crazy, his eyes became scarlet, and ghostly red marks appeared on his palms, and he strangled the concubine to death.

Even the first emperor didn't react. No one could believe that a young child could strangle a woman in her twenties to death.

After that, he passed out.

When he woke up again, what he saw was the expressionless imperial doctor and the gleaming knife in his hand.

His eyes were gouged out.

Since then, his world has no light.

Fu Yan could never forget that kind of unforgettable pain in his life.

After that, the first emperor sent him out of the palace and to the Xiaxian Gate on the grounds that the spell in his body needed to be resolved.

More than ten years later, he reached a deal with Yu Jin, anticipating that the Xiaxian Gate would not be able to stay any longer, so he asked his master Su Changjiu to send a letter to the palace, and soon left the Xiaxian Gate.

"But now, everything is over." Fu Yan suddenly showed a smile, a real smile without any hidden meaning, "You have avenged me, and I have left the palace. I think , no matter how much you care about, you should let it go."

Ember looked at him steadfastly, before saying after a long while: "Is it really letting go?"

Fu Yan sneered: "Could it be fake? Everyone is dead. It's useless for me to hate it. Instead, I'm tired of living."

Although he has been imprisoned in the dark for many years.

After returning to the palace, it was still the shackles, the cold palace, and the palace people who would detour when they saw him.He is like a prisoner, not free, without hope, and the support for surviving day after day is hatred.

But now, the great vengeance has been avenged, but he suddenly found some meaning of remaining in the world.

"I have always wanted to know, what has supported you to live until now?"

he asked Ember.

He is the one who understands Ember's pain the most, and it can even be said that to a certain extent, he is also an accomplice.

Ember put down the teacup, he only said four words without any emotion, but Fu Yan was shocked suddenly.

"I can't ask for death."

"We share the same disease and pity each other." After a long time, Fu Yan said.

"Do not."

After Ember finished speaking, she got up and left.

Behind him, Fu Yan sighed lowly.

It's different, maybe he has been relieved, but the pain of the embers continues.